The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication…
Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab developed the
Digital Workshops for Parents and Educators as part of Frontline's
"Digital Nation," premiering February 2, 2010.
Lesson plans and materials to help you teach about copyright and fair use in high school, university or graduate school.
Analyze and comment on media messages using Voice Thread!
The Media Education Lab team created this dynamic multimedia curriculum including lesson plans, three videos and an online quiz that measures youth civic engagement. These lessons show educators how to…
Finally, the comprehensive three-volume curriculum created by Renee Hobbs is available online. This is the 18-unit curriculum developed
for Maryland State Department of Education and Discovery
Communications, Inc.
You can download the PDF files…
Elements of Language (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) is the first English language arts textbook to fully incorporate media literacy throughout the series for students in grades 6 -12. Chapters introduce…
Check out our lesson plans for teachers and an interactive quiz for parents encourage reflection and analysis of the Frontline film, "Growing Up Online."
Renee Hobbs and Kelly Mendoza developed materials…
How discerning are you when it comes to analyzing news and entertainment? Take this quiz!
Curriculum Resources from the Youth Media Workshop for Iranian American Youth, held in Philadelphia from August 3 - 7, 2009 at the Asian Arts Initiative. See the lesson plans and…
This curriculum with video clips promotes critical analysis of non-fiction television for students in grades 6 - 12 and demonstrates simple but powerful learning activities that help build critical thinking…
The Media Education Lab is working in collaboration with the Alliance of Civilizations, the Roberts Elementary School in Wayne, PA, and faculty and students at Kuwait University to explore how…
MacNeil Lehrer Productions has created short video that features Renee Hobbs on how media literacy can be used to address the prescription drug industry's messages that influence people to seek…
Developed in collaboration with the Newspaper Association of America, Messages & Meanings is a collection of curriculum activities for analyzing print and electronic media. This resource includes instructional activities for…
My Pop Studio is an online creative play experience for girls ages 9 - 14 designed to promote media literacy. The project was supported by a grant from the U.S.…
This skills builder includes tools for analyzing the media, understanding advertising, understanding media ownership, and issues of representation.
Exploring News and Journalism in a School-Community Partnership with PBS News Hour Extra
SNAPS photo cards are an easy-to-use set of 30 large cardboard cards depicting a variety of different types of television programs.
Finally-- a flexible teaching resource for children! They're…
The STAND (Students Taking Action, Not Drugs) project invites young people to use the power of mass media to design, create and deliver meaningful messages to help other teens resist…
Renee Hobbs and a team of Pennsylvania educators developed The Media Straight Up to bring together literacy and substance abuse prevention goals for middle-school students. The curriculum meets PA standards…
